Miss me? I felt I didn’t deserve to blog until I cleared my deadlines. I haven’t cleared all of them but I spent the whole day slaying a pile of red-tape and thought I deserved this little treat. I’ve been on quite a music adventure off the radar after I deleted my last.fm last year. … Continue reading Friday Mixtape 09/07/2021
Canary Islands — Goth Babe Like You Care — Slow Corpse Safeword — Rhye Mold — Jonsi Chemtrails Over The Country Club — Lana Del Rey Continue reading Thursday Mixtape 18/02/2021
First playlist of 2021! Lots of great new releases I’ve been really enjoying! Meno — Alena Murang Sad Cowboy — Goat Girl Holocene — Zelia Day (feat Weyes Blood) Favor — Julien Baker All We Have — Julia Stone (Feat Matt Berninger) Madre — Arca feat. Oliver Coates Parking Lot — Weather Station Continue reading Tuesday Tonalities 16/02/2021
Wings — Mica Levi Lost But Never Alone — Oneohtrix Point Never Sister — Caribou Care — Beabadoobee Continue reading Tuesday Tonalities 30/12/2020
This past week, I’ve been listening to a lot of lute and classical guitar music, plus binge-listening to Maddy Prior, Sting and Loreena Mckennit on repeat. Comfort music, you know. But the general mixtape series were made for tracks released in the same year aka “new releases” — so I’m going to attempt to play … Continue reading Monday Mixtape 28/12/2020
Well, I’ve changed the theme for this site mostly because it’s such a bother to keep finding feature pictures and I’m all about making life easier in these difficult times, and especially since I am still grappling with multiple deadlines against fatigue and physical pain. The Postal Modern Theatrette has been a feature of all … Continue reading Postal Modern Theatrette Notes 27/12/2020
Some Qawwali music for your Sunday. I love this one by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan so much. Continue reading Sunday Matinee 8/11/2020
This is actually several hours early for Friday Night, but a day late for the catalyst for this Mixtape: the 5th of November and Guy Fawkes Night. I’ll never forget my first, and only Guy Fawkes Night. I was five or six, and in school in Edinburgh. I was quite frightened of it all 🙂 … Continue reading Friday Night Mixtape 06/11/2020
Wake My Door — Avey Tare Zombie Girl — Adrienne Lenker Lemon — Local Natives (featuring Sharon Van Etten) Wasted — Tomberlin Let Me Love You Like A Woman — Lana Del Rey The Great Divide — The Shins Continue reading Midweek Mixtape 28/10/2020
Can’t Touch This or That or You or My Face — Kaki King Kaki King’s new album, Modern Yesterdays, just dropped! It is most excellent, I am very satisfied. Already listened to it three times! When In Summer, I Forget About The Winter — Yaeji Frosting — Throwing Muses From Throwing Muse’s 2020 (!!) album, … Continue reading Monday Mixtape 26/10/2020
I’m a huge fan of Tony Gatlif movies and Vengo is one the best, I think. So tragic, so beautiful. This movie also introduced me to the music of Tomatito. (there’s another clip I wanted to share but it has the G-word in the title so. Best if you guys just try to find the … Continue reading Sunday Matinee (Flamenco Edition) 25/10/2020
Well well well, it’s Friday again, the day in which I do a more eclectic mixtape. I like to drop my Friday Night Mixtapes early! The End of The World (cover) — Sharon Van Etten Oh, I don’t know why this song is earworming me. Honestly! 🙄 But it’s inspired this mixtape! One More Kiss, … Continue reading Friday Night Mixtape 23/10/2020